Mount Joy, Pennsylvania — If you think your taxes are high, one Pennsylvania man probably has you beat, as he says his jaw dropped when he got his latest tax bill.
Barry Tangert says he was charged more than 34 billion dollars in overdue taxes, penalties, and interest by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue.
The number is so big that it doesn’t even fit on one line.
Barry says this year, his tax preparer noticed a mistake on his 2022 return and sent in an amended return.
He adds that he actually got a refund from the IRS on the same day he got the bill.
Barry says there was a lot going through his mind when he saw what he owed in what could be called a "blunder bill."
“The first thought was, ‘I wish I made enough money to even owe thirty billion in taxes,’ then I was thinking, “I’m going to need to drink a lot of coffee in order to work three full time jobs’ and then I’m thinking, “Wesley Snipes doesn't have anything on me,’ and finally I was thinking, ‘don't they have a computer algorithm to spot an error like this and if a human looked at this why do they still have a job.’”
Barry did reach out to the Department of Revenue to see what was going on and they told him they'd look into it and get back to him in a few weeks.
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